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Halon Secure Load Balancer, part of Halon’s Software Security Suite of products, securely distributes incoming data traffic and acts as first line of defense against malicious attacks

Halon Security is launching the personal edition of the already well-known Virtual Security Router (VSR). Performance, security and a rich feature set are three of the core values Halon Security has always promoted and, considering that the Personal VSR is meant to reach all OpenBSD fans and users, the firewall will be available free of charge on the company’s official website.

A brand new survey of the state of IPv6 readiness amongst most of the developers of networking and IT security products reveals that only one of them actually managed to do it properly. And it wasn’t Cisco.

To develop, market and sell products that handle IPv6 properly is one thing. But how prepared are the developers themselves for the move to IPv6? With a website called www.ip6.nl anyone can test of a certain domain is ready for IPv6 or test if their own Internet connection is IPv6 ready.

With interest for secure IT solutions rapidly increasing in the UK and all over the world, Halon Security has signed a distribution agreement with leading UK distributor VCW Security.

Increased demand for fast, reliable and affordable IT security solutions in the UK has required pioneering Swedish security vendor Halon Security to sign the distribution contract with one of the leading VADs in the UK, VCW Security.

We have some exciting news about our spam prevention series. The upgrade to FreeBSD 9 and overall refactoring was not the only treatment the SP series got this autumn and winter. We have collected feedback and performed evaluations of how our customers uses the web interfaces, trying to figure out what the best possible reporting and logging experience would be like. Read on to see what this has resulted in.

Increased demand of security products in Scandinavia, pioneering Swedish security vendor Halon Security signs distributor agreement with leading supplier CBK Distribution AS Oslo, Norway.

As the interest for secure high performance IT solutions from Halon Security grows in Europe, this interest is also growing in Norway. Today, Halon Security announces a new distribution partnership with CBK Distribution AS, who specializes distribution of network and peripherals products.

As many corporations seek to outsource as much as possible of their internal IT infrastructure, secure networks between sites is often hard to move outside the internal corporate infrastructure. Ilait changes that by offering Halon Security’s virtual firewall VSR as a turn-key cloud service to their resellers.

As the interest for secure high performance IT security solutions is growing in the UK, pioneering Swedish IT security specialist Halon Security now signs UK Virtualization distributor Ai Virtualisation as its first distributor in the UK.

As the interest for secure high performance IT solutions from Halon Security grows in Europe, this interest is also growing in the United Kingdom. Today, Halon Security announces a new distribution partnership with Ai Virtualisation, who specializes in the distribution of products for the virtualized enterprise IT infrastructure.

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It seems that significantly increased performance is not the only enhancement in the next security router release, due in a few days.

We said to ourselves; "wouldn't graphs that update every second with live data be useful", and a few hours later the statd process was tweaked to output 1-second measurements of traffic, CPU, firewall states, etc. and the graph library was modified to dynamically populate data-points (in addition to the "historical" rrdtool file format support that it currently has).

While waiting for OpenBSD 5.2 to be officially released, we'll be releasing another security router (SR) update based on our current OpenBSD version, but with various improvements.

One of them is a rather interesting patch that has been floating around for some time, could nearly double the raw forwarding (routing) performance.

This major release started out as a FreeBSD 9 transition, but the substantial structural changes that, as usual, come with such a transition have made it into a lot more. Although the traditional goal is to minimise code changes (for stability testing and regression reasons), there are motivations for refactoring and renewal in general. Because the FreeBSD version transition basically forces us to re-test everything, not only unit-testing but mainly real-world operation, this is a great time to do such work.

With the ever increasing interest in Halon Security’s leading products for network and email security, the company now opens a sales office in San Francisco, USA, to work with sales and distribution across the entire country.

As the interest and sales of Halon Securty products for securing computer networks and corporate email grows by leaps and bounds, Halon Security now opens their second sales office outside Sweden. The office, located in down town San Francisco, will work with sales and distribution of all Halon Security products across the entire United States.

With the all new Halon Security Router, Halon Security takes the case of clustering and high availability to a new level of simplicity. It’s what plug-and-play was supposed to be.

As soon as any corporation has grown to the point of needing a high availability firewall solution, things usually become very complicated. Building a cluster solution with efficient and precise configuration sharing can be a nightmare for even the most seasoned IT professional. With the Halon Security Router series, this just became a whole lot easier.

With the launch of the VMware™ Solution Exchange, thousands of VMware™ customers around the world can collaborate and discuss VMware Ready™ certified solutions listed in the VMware™ Solution Exchange. All solutions listed on the VMware™ Solution Exchange are certified by VMware™ to work perfectly on the VMware™ virtualization platform.

Demand for a stronger presence in France and northern Africa, Halon Security now opens a sales office in Paris, France.

As the interest and sales of Halon Security products are growing in France, northern Africa and other french speaking countries in Europe, a local sales office now opens in Paris, France. Halon Security’s firewall and email security products are rapidly gaining traction in the region and the sales office will be managed by Eugenio Correnti.

The Linux Journal announce Halon SR, Security Router and Firewall in latest publication.

As you might have noticed, this year we released a new series of firewalls (or security routers, as we prefer to call them). They have, since the introduction, included a rather competent load balancer, which was configured using the load-balancer { directive, which is briefly explained at the wiki.

Halon Security, Sweden's most prominent e-mail security and firewall appliance manufacture, announce today next-generation firewall and security router as a virtual appliance named Virtual Security Router (VSR). The new virtual firewalls enhance network security and brings future-proof technologies.

Introducing the all new Halon SR series of firewalls. Halon Security takes performance and security beyond anything currently on the market. With new hardware appliances and new platform support for virtualization platforms, Halon SR raises the bar for the entire firewall market.

Our e-mail gateways has supported IPv6 throughout for a long time, but did you know that they also support IPv6 reputation and layer-3 filtering? Our so-called ippolicyd (an asynchronous process, party implemented in the FreeBSD kernel, and designed to protect the gateway in cases of immerse amounts of traffic) in combination with the recently IPv6-enabled GlobalView (IP reputation) service makes us the (I suppose) first commercial appliance to perform IPv6 reputation!

Keep an eye on the software update section; the release 2.3.4 that will introduce IPv6 reputation is imminent.

Swedish leading magazine for IT-professionals awards Halon Virtual Spam Prevention the “Best InTest Award” in comparative review of enterprise spam filtering solutions.

When Swedish leading magazine for IT-professionals, Techworld, performed a comparative review of spam filtering software Halon Virtual Spam Prevention was rewarded the Best In Test award in the toughest of competition from players like Microsoft, Symantec and WatchGuard.

As several open source based virtualization solutions have become more and more mature, Halon Security releases it’s acclaimed anti spam gateway Virtual Spam Prevention for KVM and other open source based virtualization solutions.

In spite of being on the market for a long time; few VSP reviews have been performed. We are very happy to acknowledge Network Computing's VSP review!

In their very positive review, they conclude:

— We score VSP highly for its ease of deployment and also value; we were also very impressed with the range of features it provides, writes Network Computing in their May/June 2011 issue.

Now that Network Computing took the first step, we encourage all other computer magazines to review it as well!

Download a full featured, 30 days trial version of Halon VSP from our website.

Last month the migration towards IPv6 got some attention (again) when the last remaining blocks of IPv4 addresses were allocated, and we were "officially" out of IPv4 addresses. If you only read the headlines, this problem might seem more problematic than it really is, while it's true that the last addresses were allocated they have been given out to secondary organizations that handles the distribution to companies and service providers and with the upcoming after market those who want to pay hard cash will still be able to get IPv4 addresses.

Virus Bulletin has since 2009 given out the prestigious VBSpam Verified award, in order to help customers choose anti-spam solutions which actually keeps their promised false-positive and spam catch rates. In the latest test Halon VSP delivered as promised with ease.

This time I'm going to show how to deploy a VSP/SPG with multiple domains using the SOAP interface scripted in PHP (http://php.net). This comes in handy when you're facing the task of otherwise manually adding hundreds of domains with all or some different mail transports. If they all share the same transport, you could save yourself some trouble and use a "any"-domain (catch-all) instead, if the domain exists will then be determinated in the recipient flow by SMTP lookup (if this raises any questions contact our support :).

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We're getting some rest on the train back from Malmö, and happy to announce that all attendees of this years certification seminars have passed the notoriously difficult examination test with flying colors! They are now highly qualified Halon professionals, and ready to serve potential new customers out there. Logotypes and links to new partners will appear on the reseller listing page shortly.

I like to express my great appreciation to all attendees for their patience, interest and hard work during these three days. You're the best!

The readers of Network Computing and Computing Security has spoken. Halon Securitys virtualized email security solution Virtual Spam Prevention received top ranking for Best Anti-Spam Solution of 2010.

In the toughest possible competition, came Swedish Halon Security and their virtualized e-mail security solution, Virtual Spam Prevention (VSP), in second place and was presented at yesterday's Computing Security Awards in London.

Halon Security’s leading anti spam solution Virtual Spam Prevention is one of eight products nominated to win award in category for best anti spam solution.

Voting for who gets to go home with one of the coveted Computing Security Awards is underway. Halon Security and their leading anti spam solution, Virtual Spam Prevention, is one of eight products nominated to win in the best Anti Spam Solution category.